$26,000
Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000
European Art & Old Master Paintings
Auction: February 23, 2021 12:00:00 PM EDT
Signed with Artist's initial 'M' (circled) and numbered '3/6' at base, to the right; also with 'Alexis Rudier/Fondeur. Paris.' foundry mark at base, verso, bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 12 3/8 in. (31.5cm)
Conceived in 1930 and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 6, plus 2 Artist's proofs during the Artist's lifetime.
Provenance
Private Collection (acquired in 2011).
Sotheby's, London, sale of February 4, 2016, lot 188.
Private Collection, New York.
Literature
Maurice Denis, A. Maillol, G. Crès, Paris, 1925, pl. 16 (plaster version illustrated).
John Rewald, Maillol, Hypérion, Paris, 1939, p.128 (plaster version illustrated as Young Man Standing)
Denys Chevalier, Maillol, Crown, New York, 1979, p. 39 (another cast illustrated).
Waldemar George, Aristide Maillol et l'Âme de la Sculpture, Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 1977, p. 207 (another cast illustrated).
Hans Albert Peters, Maillol (an exhibition catalogue), Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1978, p. 67 (another cast illustrated).
Dina Vierny and Bertrand Lorquin, Maillol, La Passion du Bronze, Paris, 1995, p. 12 (another cast illustrated).